By San Juan Coun­ty The most effi­cient way to sub­mit build­ing appli­ca­tions to San Juan Coun­ty is online at sanjuanco.com/opc. You can also use the drop­box at the entrance to the cour­t­house to sub­mit forms and pay­ments for burn per­mits, land use, build­ing, right of way, water avail­abil­i­ty, birth and death cer­tifi­cates, and sep­tic designs  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Mer­ri Ann Simon­son, Cold­well Banker San Juan Islands The third-quar­ter results for San Juan Island and San Juan Coun­ty were con­sis­tent with the first quar­ter results; very robust. The sec­ond quar­ter was in COVID shock but that gave way to a strong third quar­ter. Per the NWMLS, the dol­lar vol­ume year-to-date on San Juan  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Kathryn Clary, RN, BSN, CHPN, Hos­pice of the North­west, San Juan Island Cur­rent­ly, the only Medicare-based hos­pice in our coun­ty is Hos­pice of the North­west. Two years ago this hos­pice was list­ed as the No. 1 hos­pice agency in the Unit­ed States. HNW pro­vides med­ical hos­pice ser­vices no mat­ter one’s abil­i­ty to pay. Medicare hos­pice  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Wash­ing­ton State Fer­ries Web­site Cus­tomers will notice that Wash­ing­ton State Fer­ries’ web­site has a new look. Not only does it look bet­ter, but it is now eas­i­er to nav­i­gate. Check out the changes at www.wsdotferries.com. If you have ques­tions or need help find­ing infor­ma­tion on the web­site, con­tact our cus­tomer call cen­ter at 206–464‑6400  Con­tin­ue Reading

Larsen to Meet with Marine Resource Com­mit­tee, Friends of the San Juans, Coun­ty Trans­porta­tion Staff, Port Lead­ers By Rep. Rick Larsen’s Office On Fri­day, Oct. 23, Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) will meet with the San Juan Coun­ty Marine Resources Com­mit­tee at Cat­tle Point to dis­cuss the MRC’s efforts to reduce ves­sel traf­fic on endan­gered South­ern  Con­tin­ue Reading

By the Bureau of Land Man­age­ment  The Bureau of Land Man­age­ment announced that it is seek­ing pub­lic nom­i­na­tions to the San Juan Islands Nation­al Mon­u­ment Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee. This cit­i­zen-based com­mit­tee assists in the devel­op­ment of rec­om­men­da­tions that address pub­lic land man­age­ment issues. The MAC, which is for­mal­ly char­tered under the Fed­er­al Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee Act and  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Peace Island Med­ical Cen­ter Octo­ber is Nation­al Breast Can­cer Aware­ness Month and women at Peace­Health Peace Island Med­ical Cen­ter can uti­lize the ben­e­fits of three-dimen­­sion­al tech­nol­o­gy as part of their mam­mog­ra­phy screen­ing and breast health prac­tices. Dig­i­tal screen­ing mam­mog­ra­phy com­ple­ments the grow­ing port­fo­lio of diag­nos­tic imag­ing ser­vices, which include state-of-the-art CT scan­ning, X‑ray, echocar­dio­g­ra­phy  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Mary Stone, San Juan Island After 40 years prac­tic­ing law, 30 of them in Fri­day Har­bor, I am retir­ing, but I am leav­ing the law prac­tice in the very capa­ble hands of my part­ner, Bob Bul­loch. My hus­band and I will con­tin­ue to spend win­ters in Puer­to Rico, but instead of return­ing to Fri­day  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Island Cham­ber of Com­merce and the Friends of the Library are host­ing a San Juan Island Scare­crow Con­test. Below are the loca­tions of the entered scare­crows and their cre­ators.  Enter your top three favorites on a bal­lot at the San Juan Island Cham­ber of Com­merce, 165 1st St. South, or email becki@sanjuanisland.org.  Con­tin­ue Reading

By SAFE San Juans For the month of Octo­ber, SAFE San Juans hopes to make the islands glow pur­ple in hon­or of the vic­tims of domes­tic vio­lence. The tra­di­tion of using Pur­ple Night Lights to hon­or those who have (or are) suf­fer­ing from domes­tic vio­lence began in Cov­ing­ton, Wash­ing­ton in 2006. Since pur­ple is the cause col­or  Con­tin­ue Reading